As You Like It

Full of all the comedy, confusion and cross-dressing you could want, MDCC presents As You Like It, to celebrate their 50th Anniversary of outdoor Shakespeare. True to the spirit of the play, 'All the world's a stage', so bring a picnic and some friends and enjoy one of the Bard's best-loved and most accessible plays in the Great British outdoors.
Under threat of death, Rosalind and Celia escape the cruel city into the fairytale world of the Forest of Arden. Along with social commentator and professional idiot, Touchstone the jester, they uncover a wonderland of odd characters… who all seem strangely familiar. Not only do they find an exiled Duke living out his mid-life crisis playing Robin Hood, but wrestlers become wimps, slimy courtiers turn into honest shepherds and faithful old servants transform into Greek gods. In amongst all of this ridiculous confusion, three couples fall in love, two villains undergo miraculous conversions and one lioness gets wrestled. Is it all a dream, a fantasy, or simply a game? The decision is yours –as you like it.